Military Demarcation Line

English

Proper noun

the Military Demarcation Line

1. A line forming the boundary separating North Korea and South Korea.
   • 1983 July 29 [1983 July 28], Zhou Bizhong, “The People Yearn for Reunification”, in Daily Report: China‎^[1], volume I, number 147, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 3:

     In the city of Jiangyuanaogao [3068 0626 6670 7559], located at the foot of the Jingang [6855 9474] Mountains not far from the northern border of the military demarcation line, was the Sanripu [0005 2480 3184] cooperative farm.

   • 2017 July 17, “South Korean President Moon Jae-In calls for rare talks with North”, in DW News‎^[2], archived from the original on July 17, 2017, News‎^[3]:

     South Korea's defense ministry called Monday for formal talks with its northern neighbor to be held on July 21 at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in the border town of Panmunjom where prior inter-Korea talks have been held.
     "We make the proposal for a meeting... aimed at stopping all hostile activities that escalate military tension along the land border" that is also the Military Demarcation Line between the long-hostile neighbors, the ministry announced in a statement.

   • 2018 April 26, Megan Specia, Tim Wallace, “Inside the Border Village Hosting North and South Korea’s Summit”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 26, 2018, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     Panmunjom is sliced in two by the Military Demarcation Line. The summit meeting site in Panmunjom, the Peace House, is technically on the South Korean side of the line.